"GOHAN!"
Everyone froze, as Cooler pulled back and smirked at the shocked princess. Dark brown eyes wide as blood slowly dribbled down his chin and poured profusely from his wound. Gohan, struggled to breathe; searing pain burned through him as he weakly pulled his body off of Cooler's hand. Coughing up more blood as soon as he was free.
Frieza saw red then and soon as he saw that Gohan's body was free, he charged his own brother and slammed them both into through the remaining walls of the docking bay. Vegeta, on the other hand, ran and caught Gohan before he dropped to his knees as a Namek and Piccolo rushed over to them. The younger Namek began to heal the wound, Piccolo took Trunks from the sling Gohan had put him in when he was escaping with his grandfather and the others. Trunks was fine for the most part, just frazzled from shock.
"Gohan!" Vegeta asked, fright and concern heavy on his face and in his voice.
"I'm... fine..." Gohan coughed out, blood trickling from the corners of his mouth.
"Be quiet!" Vegeta growled, though it sounded like a strangled whine, as he pressed his hand over the wound on his mate's stomach.
"It's hard to heal. We need to get him to a rejuvenation tank before he..." The young Namek began.
"Then why are you still here!" Vegeta demanded.
Piccolo grabbed the younger Namek as Zarbon picked up Gohan, after making sure that Trunks was secure, and they took off once more, moving as fast as they could. They didn't want to stick around when Vegeta flew off the handle. Nappa and the others backed away as well, all watching how jerky and stiffly Vegeta moved, eyes closed as tense muscles spasmed and twitched, his auburn hair turning gold in rapid flickers of his Ki.
Frieza finally emerged from the ruins of the Docking Bay, covered in his brother's blood, smirking in sadistic glee that his brother was dead for his transactions against his whore. Now all he had to do was deal with the monkeys and get back his soon to be mate. He looked up at the Saiyans that were still floating there, but gasped as his widened. He couldn't help but to stare in horror as Vegeta slowly began to become a Super Saiyan right before his eyes.
But that horror quickly bled away to rage as Vegeta looked at him with a calm but deadly gaze. Nappa looked to Cornelius, the one eyed Saiyan shook his head and jerked his head back. The bald one nodded as they began to drift back slowly, worried about what state Vegeta's mind was in, but any guess they came up with wasn't a good one.
"You will pay a thousand fold for what you have done to me, my family and my people." Vegeta said, but it wasn't his voice at the same time. No the second voice with his was more primal, more... evil.
"Ooh, you think you scare me!" Frieza shouted, but he was trembling in terrified awe of the golden being, but it was the eyes that frightened him. There was no white, not iris or even a pupil. Everything was solid red. The Oozuru's eyes.
Vegeta snorted and Frieza let out a war cry, flying at Vegeta head on, a pink hued Ki ball aimed for his head. Vegeta smacked the hand from his face and spun quickly, his heel smashing into Frieza's face, knocking several of his teeth loose. Frieza snarled, spitting into his hand and glaring as he looked at five of his teeth that had been knocked out.
"Fucking monkey!" He bellowed and charged again, but vanished at the last second and went after Vegeto.
The Saiyan king dodged all the blows and landed several in, kicking the alien to Cornelius who caught hold of Frieza's tail and spun him around before throwing him back at Vegeta. The prince closed his hands together, crossing his fingers, and slammed them down on Frieza's head as soon as he was within range.
"Leave..."
"But-"
"LEAVE!"
Nappa gulped and grabbed hold of Vegeto as the Earthen humans took off with Cornelius behind them. The bald one, Krillin, gave Vegeta a bag of Senzu Beans, telling him to be careful before taking off. Vegeto sighed and followed behind the hulking Saiyan, a silent prayer to the gods of their people to protect his son.
As soon as they were gone, Vegeta dodged five blasts aimed his way, but got kicked in the back by Frieza. Growling, he spun in midair and shot back at him, tackling Frieza into whatever was left of the docking bay's command tower. As soon as they hit the floor, Vegeta began to punch away at Frieza. His face, shoulders, chest; anywhere he could hit him.
Frieza snarled and used an uppercut to get the prince off of him, wrapping his tail over Vegeta's neck and squeezing with all his might, laughing cruelly a Vegeta's eyes got wide and he struggled to breathe.
"The almighty Super Saiyan is having trouble? And to think I feared you..." He growled, watching as the red bled to white and Vegeta just hung limply in his hold. "Heh, pathetic... Now to go claim my bride..."
Frieza dumped the body on the floor, floating up into the air, but before he could get far, his tail was grabbed and he was slammed several times into the floor and the many large piles of rubble and debris. When he got his bearings back he was stunned to see Vegeta standing, rubbing at his neck. Vegeta on the other hand rubbed at his sore shoulders after his neck, smirking as Frieza looked at him with fear.
"We are not so easily defeated... We will avenge our mate and our people..." Vegeta spoke again. "And we will make sure that you never harm another ever again. This we promise you."
Frieza roared in rage, blindly swinging away as Vegeta dodged and blocked all the blows. As they fight the world shook around them and the force of it all was tearing it apart. The few men that Frieza had left, stared in horrified awe as their prince fought the Saiyan Prince. Dodoria finally pulled himself out of a pile of rubble, he was battered and bruised, but overall he was fine.
He looked about and growled. The Docks were nothing more than ruins and a lot of his men were dead. He looked up and paled seeing Vegeta fighting with Frieza, but the Saiyan Prince looked to be bored, just dodging all of Frieza's attacks. He growled, he couldn't fight Vegeta and Frieza looked to be tiring himself out trying to get the bastard.
"Commander Dodoria!" He looked to the man who spoke, the purple and yellow spotted alien told him that the other Saiyans fled and that the Saiyan Princess had been mortally wounded.
He asked where they had last seen them and took off under the fighters' radar with the remaining men. If they could capture the injured princess, Vegeta would stand down and allow Frieza the opportunity to kill the prince once and for all. They were amazed at how short a distance they had to travel to get to the enemy camp, but didn't dare question it. Dodoria charged up several Ki blasts and fired at the ships.
Several warriors appeared, but not all of them were Saiyan. He paled seeing Skyler, Doga, Babylonians and Indigo thrown into the mix with a few Nameks here and some subspecies of Saiyan there. Shaking off his shock he ordered his men to recapture the prisoners of Frieza's Harem as he himself was going after Gohan.
But he didn't get very far because as soon as he moved, one of the subspecies of Saiyan appeared before him and blasted out his right eye, followed by one of the Saiyans smashing him in the back of the head with both fists. Glaring up at them with his one eye he saw the Saiyan was also missing an eye, but his had scarred over time. If his memory served him correctly, he was the little bitch's father.
He fired off several rounds at the two, before getting kneed hard in the face on the right side. He rolled several feet and glared at his attacker to see...
"Zarbon..."
"Dodoria!" The prince roared, his light pink eyes looking menacing as hi body began to morph and change, becoming bigger and bulkier as his face became ugly and feral.
The new side of the normally pretty boy shocked everyone in view, but they relaxed when Zaron joined his son with some of his men, all of them looking much like the prince currently was. The Prince hissed, clicking his tongue as he craned his neck to look at his father, slitted eyes conveying the message. His father hissed his laughter and clicked his tongue a few times, a croaking sound forming in his throat.
Dodoria growled and charged, but stopped short when a ship blasted off. He looked around and cursed, he didn't have enough men to keep these bastards from taking off with the whores! Glaring at Zarbon he charged once more, only to take a hit to the right side of his head again, when he recovered, a short subspecies of Saiyan stood there, dressed in orange and glaring death at him.
"You bastards hurt Gohan pretty bad... You're gonna pay for that!"
"Ha, ha, ha, ha! Really you're so worked up over a whore? I bet you all enjoyed fucking him too much, that's why you're here to save him!" Dodoria laughed more and more, but was cut off when something flew passed his face on both sides of his head.
He screamed in pain, but stopped when it made the pain that much worse. Bluish purple blood poured profusely down his face as he glared with his good eye at them. The bald shit would be the first to go as soon as the pain stopped. His men saw this and quickly ran for it, but didn't get far as the other Lizards charged and attacked them, killing them before they could escape.
Zarbon hissed at his father before turning to Dodoria and smirking. Zaron bowed his head and vanished into the crowd. Not long after another ship blasted off followed by more and more, some Saiyan bods also took off. This pissed the pink alien off all the more, the whores were getting away!
He charged Zarbon, who let him hit him, but blinked. It didn't even hurt. Smirking, he looked at him and growled out.
"Was that suppose to hurt?" He asked. "Tsk... so it was the limiter's fault that it hurt so much... time for some payback!"
He charged up a blast and shot Dodoria in the shoulder, knocking him back. Dodoria hissed in pain and glared at the pale blue alien with malice. He charged and Zarbon brought up a foot and brought it down on his spiked head, smirking when he smashed it into the floor before he grabbed one of the bulky alien's legs and spun around throwing him into the air. A few Namek warriors zoomed passed him, hitting him like a ball, keeping him in the air. The humans that could fly joined in, the bald one blasted him in the face as the three eyed one and the small pale child with him did a twin attack:
One hitting him in the head from the left as the other kicked him in the legs from the right, causing the brute to spin in the air as he began to fall, this brought him back down to Zarbon who was waiting, his throat had puffed up like a frogs would when it would 'ribbit', but instead of the droning sound a large beam shot out of his mouth, burning the alien as he fell back to the ground.
Zarbon smirked as he slowly shrunk down in size and his beast was locked away leaving him relatively docile and his usual pretty self. Dodoria slowly sat up, he was in a lot of pain, but he didn't get up far when he suddenly he felt something land in his stomach. He spit up more than blood from the force of the hit. He slowly looked up to see a face similar to Gohan's but the hair wasn't the same. Not to mention the man was more muscular than the lithe young man.
"You threatened my grandson... you're gonna pay for that..." Kakarot hissed, an evil grin crossing his face, scaring the others as he grabbed the pink bulky alien by a spike and pulled him up to his face as he tilted his head in thought. "I wonder... is it possible for your head to even fit up your ass?"
"Goku!" Yamcha cried in shock, he's seen his friend mad before, but this was down right sadistic. "How did you-?"
"I read Gohan's memories... It was something I learned from King Kai when I died and trained with him remember?" Kakarot smirked, before picking up the pink alien, eyes flashing red with madness before he threw him at Cornelius, who in turn thrust a hand through the alien's shoulder, holding him in the air as his mate charged and used the alien as a punching back.
This gave the others time to finish off whatever henchmen were still around before getting the remaining ships ready. Vegeto grabbed Kakarot's arm and told him that Gohan's ship was ready to go, they were just waiting for him. The Saiyan nodded his head, pecked his in-law's cheek then kissed his mate, kneeing Dodoria a few more times in the head before he shot off for the ship and it took off not a moment later.
Vegeto nodded to Cornelius who then charged a Ki blast from inside of Dodoria who screamed as the blast shattered his body, ripping him to bits moments later. The two were the last few remaining, the others heading back to Vegetasei while the small team waited for Vegeta, but they would wait in orbit in case Frieza came after them...
Frieza slammed into the ground, rocks falling all over him as he gasped in painful breathes of air. The Prince was stronger, much stronger than he had first thought. But how was this possible? He's seen all of Vegeta's limits, seen him in battle and even fought him many times before, there was no way the Saiyan could have gotten so strong in such a short amount of time nor could he or anyone for that matter have achieved Super Saiyan, but then again it was the Saiyan's Kakarot or "Goku" as they tend to call him from time to time, and Gohan and even Gohan's little beast of child could achieve it. If not for them, then no one else should have been able to do it.
'It has to be that planet, Earth... What did it do to these Saiyans that it allowed them to become so strong? And I even mortally wounded many of them and yet they were fighting still as if I did nothing!' He thought darkly, trying to think.
Vegeta was floating above him, watching carefully instead of moving in for the kill. He learned long ago that a move like that would get him killed. He's seen many Saiyans dive in for the kill only to be speared through by Frieza's tail. As he watched, he distantly felt a tug at the back of his mind telling him that the others had left the planet, though he could still feel a few of them, if only faintly. That brought on thoughts of his mate.
'I hope he'll be fine... Gods, please let him be fine...'
Our mate will not die on us... He's the Brídeach an Gealach Dearg and he is stronger than he looks... We will see him again. Now let us finish off this parasite and be rid of him once and for all.
He nodded his agreement and dodged the sneak attack before it could hit him and quickly brought his leg down hard on Frieza's head when he tried to sneak up from behind, the crushing blow caused the alien to bit off a chunk of his tongue and he screamed in agony as blackish red blood poured profusely out of his mouth.
Vegeta snarled in disgust before he punched him hard in the face, breaking more of his teeth and splitting his lip before that deadly tail speared him through the thigh, but his own tail wrapped around it and began to crush it as Vegeta pulled his leg free, ignoring the heavy flow of blood as he then threw Frieza into the ground, crushing him with his body weight, manifesting some of Oozuru's mass with it to crush the feminine alien into the floor as he grabbed his tail in a brutal grip and began to pull on it.
Frieza screamed in agony, clawing at the floor as blood and tears missed with saliva and dirt. He scratched at anything he could as he begged Vegeta to let him go, but the prince only tightened his hold more and pulled harder.
"I distinctly recall my mother begging for mercy like this... while my brother wailed helplessly in the crib before Dodoria silenced him with his fist!" He yanked harder, blood beginning bubble out of the skin where it was ripping away from the base of Frieza's tail bone. "Father and I were kept outside the room, listening. I could barely see mother from the crack of the door... her tail ripped from her body!"
He yanked hard, ripping the tail off of Frieza's body as he screamed once more, body going into immediate shock as Vegeta kicked him over on his back, stomping a foot on his chest to hold as steady as he could. He glared down at Frieza, his dying screams did not bring him pleasure nor did it make him feel better about seeing the once all power warlord wither squirm before him. But it did bring him closure and solace to see that the man that murdered his mother and brother, who stole his mate and child, and for years tormented and enslaved his people in his last moments.
Grabbing his tail tightly in his hand, Vegeta knelt down and carefully pried Frieza's mouth open before shoving the tip in and slowly adding more an more until Frieza's screams were silenced and the sickening smell of vomit filled the air as it poured from the corners of his mouth and even out of his nose. Vegeta watched the body convulse, bleeding out and choking at the same time, finally it stopped moving all together, but Vegeta still didn't move.
Simply tilting his head to the side he thought of his next course of action before swiftly, with a blade of Ki, cut the alien's head from his body, pulling the tail out of his mouth he calmly flew to the castle gates, seeing many of Frozt's people gathered at the gates, the creatures that looked so much like Frieza gasped seeing the golden warrior as he floated before them.
Many readied to attack, but stopped when Vegeta tossed Frieza's head to the ground before them. They screamed in terror as he calmly touched down on the floor and fixed his could glare on them.
"Let his by my first and only warning to you all... come near my territory or my allies' territories ever again and you will look very much like your all powerful king... Am I clear?"
They nodded mutely, no one daring to attack someone so powerful as to kill their new king. He snorted at them, floating back into the air, but quickly turned, thrusting his fist through Cooler's chest. Apparently Frieza didn't do a good job of killing his own brother. But ironically, Cooler had the same expression as Gohan, when Cooler's hand had impaled him. He snarled darkly as his Ki hummed loudly in their ears, burning Cooler's mangled body inside and out as the older brother wheezed, no longer able to talk thanks to his brother.
"This is for Gohan..." He hissed, bumping an orb into the wound before it got bigger and bigger, slowly ripping Cooler into quarts the more it expanded before finally he burst into flames, his remains falling to earth and burning before the people's eyes as Vegeta calmly flew away, knowing no one would dare to fall after him, seeking revenge.
He flew to where their base camp had been set and saw no one was there, he did find the remains of a few of Frieza's men, but didn't care. He took a capsule from inside of his arm and after clicking the top, tossed it into the air where his pod appeared and slammed into the floor. He got into it and started it up. He got it going and it left orbit slowly; it was regrouping with the remaining pods that were in orbit.
When it arrived and opened the hatch he turned to face his father, Nappa and Cornelius. They had been debating on what to do while waiting and opted that Frozt was too dangerous a planet to leave in peace, another Frieza or Cooler or even another Kold could be born and they didn't want to risk another repeat so together the four of them formed a single powerful blast of Ki, each in SS, driving the force of the blast into the planet where with the help of its own gravity pulled the blast right into the core causing it to overheat and expand, thus resulting in Frozt blowing up, and taking everyone with it.
Vegeto looked at his son, who had a tired look on his face, having dropped out of SS and was leaning on the pod for support. He nodded his head and the prince gracelessly fell into his pod, the hatch closing as soon as he was seated. Nappa got into his pod, seeing up the autopilot for both himself and Vegeta seeing as the prince was deeply asleep already, SS and Oozuru having drained him, not to mention the emotional stress on top of that plus the worry for Gohan's life. All in all it was one nasty cocktail that floored the prince.
Once the autopilots were engaged their pods took off for home as Vegeto looked to Cornelius, both equally tired and worried, they said nothing, getting into their pods and heading for home, they could only hope good news would await them...
-Time skip; Vegetasei-
The palace was dress in muted colors, everyone from slaves to the high council were dressed in dark grays. The palace was deathly silent, even as life seemed to go on. The Babylonians, Skyler, Indigo and Dago, even a few Lizards had all but left, only a few remained to keep silent watch over the depressed Saiyans. Things hadn't been well since they left Frozt.
Emotions were high and tempers were even higher, but the off worlders didn't blame the Saiyans for it. The young princess had been in critical condition for the last few months, never waking, but not entirely in a coma either. Everyday they would come and sit with Vegeta, who refused to leave Gohan's side, holding Trunks in his arms almost afraid that he'd lose him again if he let go. Said infant sat solemnly in his sire's arms, eyes never straying from his dame's blank, sleeping face.
Even the Earthen warriors refused to leave. Piccolo, stood silently by the window, glaring at the sky as hot tears welled into his eyes, but never fell. Kakarot took to talking to Gohan, retelling old stories of how things were on earth, how much trouble Gohan seemed to cause without ever being consciously aware of it. It pulled a few laughs every now and again from the Earthen group, but not enough to lift the gloom.
Bulma, Tuk, Dende, the Namek child who tried to heal Gohan before, and a small woman on a floating crystal ball, Old Baba, Roshi's sister, did the best they could to stabilize Gohan and to wake him up. Radditzu sat silently, holding Toma in his arms as Burdock stood behind Kakarot, Nina in his arms almost at all times when she wasn't with Vegeto. The Sons took comfort in being with their family, even if they never spoke more than a few words at a time.
Cayenne and Devon would visit with their twin sons, the redhead would talk to Gohan, telling him about the things he missed as well as telling him any news from the academy, which he still attended, even if he was mated and had children to watch over as well. Devon just stood by his friend, his hand on the Prince's shoulder as silent sign that he was there for him.
"Hey Goku... I know this may not be the time for this, but... What do you think that was back on Frozt? You know, Trunks turning into that Oozuru thing?" Krillin asked, treading carefully on the ice.
That seemed to break the gloom as everyone blinked and began to wonder as well. Everyone but Vegeta and Trunks. Vegeta listened only faintly to them, his ears trained on Gohan's slow breathing.
"Well... I think it's because Gohan's the Brídeach an Gealach Dearg..." Kakarot said, looking thoughtful even as he loosened his tunic to nurse Goten who began to get fussy. "Papa, you know more about the legend than I do; is that possible?"
"I'm not sure... With what I learned from the limited information given to me growing up and what I learned from Nadine, it's pretty possible, but the level of manifestation that we saw, Turles may be as powerful, in not more so than Brolly." Burdock mused, Nina burping a bit as he patted her back.
"But the Oozuru we saw was too mature to be Turles's... It looked more like a combination of mother and child... Both Gohan and Trunks wanted to protect Burdock and Nina from harm." Chi-Chi said.
"Wait, the bookworm made that thing appear?" Sharpner asked.
Videl punched him in the head and he yelped, causing a few laughs. Erasa sighed, muttering about stupid older brothers as Videl growled threats at the blond to not mock Gohan.
"But yes, the kiddo did make it appear." Piccolo spoke for the first time since arriving back on Vegetasei, Dende sat beside him, leaning his head on Piccolo's side, as the older Namek turned his head to look at his student. "I guess it's always been a part of what made Gohan so fearsome in the few fights he was dragged into... When Goku was killed by Garlic for the first time we faced him, he had only been a toddler then."
"Yeah... The amount of power Gohan has, surpasses that off my SS and I am considered to be the most powerful fighter in the universe, according to the people of Earth anyway." Kakarot said, shrugging. "And you've seen the damage I can do with my SS form. Now times that by 30 and you got Gohan on a bad day."
Everyone looked at the small boy in the tank, before they burst into fits of laughter, some crying as Vegeta cracked the vaguest of smirks. Soon everyone was talking about Gohan's many quirks and a few key things to avoid around him as slowly the gloom died off and everyone, even Vegeta was neck deep into the conversation.
-Later that night-
Vegeta sat beside the tank, the microphone on so as Gohan slept he could hear Vegeta's voice. He was reading to him the Legend of the Brídeach an Gealach Dearg. As he read it, his tail would curl and then relax in a timed fashion, exactly every five minutes, annoying anyone who sat with the prince. Vegeto said it was Vegeta's nerves tick. It helped him focus, on things besides his depressing thoughts.
He looked up from his reading to look in the crib beside him, Trunks was sleeping soundly, his tail held in his small hands as his bottle lay empty beside him. Trunks really did act like his late uncle, he would laugh just like him, get into mischief like him and even when he scowled at him or anyone else, all Vegeta could see was Turles's face.
He smiled, running his hand over the soft lavender locks on his son's head, chuckling softly as said infant purred in his sleep and curled up more, content to know he was safe while he slept. He sat back and was about to continue reading when the rejuvenation tank that housed Gohan began to chirp and beep, shutting off and opening up automatically. He jumped up and grabbed the towel on the back of his chair when he saw Gohan step out.
His mate was paler from lack of sun and food, though the tank kept his body healthy with an artificial diet. Gohan collapsed into his arms, shivering from the cold and a dazed look was in his eyes, like he was awake, but not awake... He wasn't sure how to describe it, but he knew Gohan was looking at him without actually seeing him.
This worried him a bit. Vegeta wasn't sure how to look at this, on one hand he was ecstatic his mate was awake, but on the other, Gohan could be suffering amnesia and wouldn't remember him or Trunks. But he shoved those thoughts away as he sat before his mate, waiting for him to focus on him.
"... Gohan?" He finally called, his mouth dying to say the other's name after so long. "Gohan?"
Said male looked up at him with those glazed eyes before they slowly blinked back into focus. He held his his breathe, eyes wide, as he held his mate's shoulders.
"... Wh-"